Sunday, November 27, 2016

Branded by Flames (Dragon Soul 1) by Sean Michael


Meet the Beteferoce brothers. Five dragon shifters, each with a strong elemental power. And each with a fierce desire to find his soul mate… 

For years, dragon-shifter-slash-firefighter Jake has been searching for his mate, but he's beginning to tire of the search. Maybe soul mates are only for the lucky few. 

Then he meets Shae. 

A former navy welder, Shae is handsome, talented, into power play and rough sex, and covered in dragon tattoos. All of this suits the shape-shifting dragon just fine—until he finds out that Shae literally has Jake's family crest already tattooed on him. A coincidence? Or something more… 

Jake must convince Shae to trust him as a man and as a Dom before the heat between them burns out of control. Becoming a dragon's mate is not without danger, and Shae will need Jake's guidance—and love—if he's going to make it through alive. 

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My Review:     (Thanks to NetGalley) 

I was on the fence when I requested this book. On one hand I've enjoyed Sean Michael's books before and I love dragon shifters. On the other hand I'm not a fan of BDSM.

MAJOR SPOILERS!!!!

Well..... this book wasn't a story, it was sex/porn. The two guys meet, they have sex. Sex, sex, sex followed by more sex. They go away to a 'remote' cabin so that Jake can reveal his dragon to Shae and the first question Shae asks is if he has a penis in that form. (Now this leads nowhere which is good because bestiality is a big no-no for me. I don't care if you're a shifter with the mind of a human, animal parts mixing sexually with human parts is an automatic DNF-and-burn-the-book.) Anyway, dragon nature revealed, they have more sex. They go back home, realise they can't live their normal lives because they need sex so much, so plan to take an extended leave of absence from their lives so they can have sex 24/7 at the remote cabin.

THAT WAS THE WHOLE BOOK.

There was no get-to-know-you; there was no mystery to solve (apart from the missing plot); apart from one brief shift there was basically no mention of dragon abilities (unless you count Jake's amazingly large cock and incredible animal like stamina); no special ability over fire/strong elemental power; and certainly no 'danger' unless you can die from lack of cock. Though considering how we are repeatedly reminded that Shae is a size queen and a pain slut with sex toys in every room of his house, that might actually be a possibility.

I really wanted to like this book, because as I said I love dragon shifters and I thought I could just skip the BDSM parts. I'm not a prude and I don't mind a bit of sex, however if you are going to skip/skim the sex parts of this story you are going to be left with maybe 10 pages out of 199. And that makes it porn, not a story.





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